Matthew 12:34 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

³⁴ You brood of vipers! how can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.

⁷ When, however, John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to receive his baptism, he said to them: "You brood of vipers! Who has prompted you to seek refuge from the coming judgment?

³⁵ A good man, from his good stores, produces good things; while an evil man, from his evil stores, produces evil things.

¹⁸ But the things that come out from the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile a man;

³³ You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

⁷ And John said to the crowds that went to be baptized by him: "You brood of vipers! who has prompted you to seek refuge from the coming judgment?

⁴⁵ A good man, from the good stores of his heart, brings out what is good; while a bad man, from his bad stores, brings out what is bad. For what fills a man's heart will rise to his lips.

⁴⁴ As for you, you are children of your Father the Devil, and you are determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first, and did not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he does what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father of lying.

¹⁰ As Scripture says-'There is not even one who is righteous, ¹¹ Not one who understands, not one who is searching for God! ¹² They have all gone astray; they have one and all become depraved; there is no one who is doing good-no, not one!' ¹³ 'Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.' 'The venom of serpents lies behind their lips,' ¹⁴ 'And their mouths are full of bitter curses.'

²⁹ Never let any foul word pass your lips, but only such good words as the occasion demands, that they may be a help to those who hear them.

⁵ So is it with the tongue. Small as it is, it is a great boaster. Think how tiny a spark may set the largest forest ablaze! ⁶ And the tongue is like a spark. Among the members of our body it proves itself a very world of mischief; it contaminates the whole body; it sets the wheels of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of the Pit. ⁷ For while all sorts of beasts and birds, and of reptiles and creatures in the sea, are tameable, and actually have been tamed by man, ⁸ No human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless plague! It is charged with deadly poison!

¹⁰ By this the Children of God are distinguished from the Children of the Devil--No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the man who does not love his Brother.